The hills around Warminster sit on the edge of the wide expanse of Salisbury Plain and contain an incredible amount of history. While...

A walk in the historic countryside around Castle Combe in Wiltshire

Apart from a description of my walk together with accompanying photographs, in this blog you’ll find a few comments about privacy rules...

While walking on Picquet Hill above Edington, I noticed a long barrow marked on the map nearby. It was situated on Tinhead Hill quite...

By Paul Timlett That’s the thing about my blogs. Nothing for weeks then two come along at once. But now that travel restrictions have...

This blog was updated with additional information and a route map on 1 December 2021. Since this is a blog about walking and photography...

By Fred Palmer I’ve lived in Wiltshire all my life, and have often seen individual pillboxes in fields and by streams, but never known...

On Thursday 6 February I woke to a thick fog. I hadn’t planned to go out photographing this day but it was too good an opportunity to...

It was while I was planning a visit to Ludgershall Castle that I noticed Collingbourne Wood. On the Ordnance Survey map I could clearly...

I have often driven from Steeple Ashton towards Edington and admired the contours of Edington Hill. Unlike its near neighbour at Bratton...

One of the benefits of living in Wiltshire is that is a rural county. Even in the urban areas, once you get outside of the towns you...

I discovered this Iron Age fort when I was looking at Oysters Coppice on the ordnance survey map. Just a short walk to the South West of...

Inspired by Glyn Coy’s visit to Knook Castle in January 2019 I decided to visit it for myself. It’s around a 15 minute drive from where...

UPDATED 22 December 2020. Today I revisited parts of this walk and realised that I made a major mistake when writing the original blog in...

Long Knoll and Little Knoll from King Alfred's Tower by Glyn Coy Long Knoll (grid reference ST794376) is just to the south of Maiden Bradley and has long been a visible milestone to me on the way down to Stourhead. When walking in the landscape around there, I have often taken photos of it and use it as an orientation point when walking. It is a distinctive ridge of chalk grassland which is about a mile in length and looks like a spine. There are fine views of it from White S

By Paul Timlett A couple of months ago I volunteered to shoot photographs and write a blog for Hidden Wiltshire about three of the hills above Pewsey Vale. I had a route in mind that would take me up onto Milk Hill from Stanton St Bernard, then following Wansdyke I’d walk along the ridge line to Tan Hill before heading south over Clifford’s Hill. I figured from there I would drop down to the Kennet and Avon Canal before completing the circuit to Stanton St Bernard. With the

Bushcombe Bottom and Bidcombe Hill Right in the South West corner of Wiltshire you will find The Deverills, a string of villages between...

This is a 3 mile walk that takes you up and around Box Hill. Detail of the route and a map can be downloaded here: Walk and Map. Box Hill...